On 06/25/13 03:06, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tue, June 25, 2013 09:02, Grant wrote: >> I have several remote systems all pushing backups to my local laptop >> via rdiff-backup. Sometimes when on the road I find myself behind a >> router and the remote systems are unable to push. Is openvpn the >> right solution here? Should I run a separate openvpn server on each >> system to be backed up with my laptop as the client? > > If you can configure the router to forward the port used by the OpenVPN > server to your laptop, you can run the server on your laptop. > > But, as is more likely, when you can not configure the router, running an > OpenVPN server on (at least one) remote system and having your laptop > connect to that, you can have the other systems push to your laptop over > the VPN-link. > Either directly (by establishing multiple VPN-links from your laptop (one > to each server) or via one of the remote systems. >
Many hotels, airports, universities, etc. will also block everything except TCP port 80/443 outgoing. I suggest running OpenVPN on tcp/443.
